Do you read the college ranking books like the US New and Priceton Review? What is the best College Ranking book? Do you trust their ranking? How important is it to go to a high ranking school? Can you name other ranking books and/or websites? Please try to answer each question. Thank you!Do you read the college ranking books like the US New and Priceton Review? What is the best book? Can you name?
I've been an academic librarian for 20 years. I have looked at several ranking books over time.
The main problem with ranking books, is that they necessarily look at the past. They cannot forsee the future, and know what the school will be like when you go there.
The second thing problem is the rankings don't know YOU. Which school is really going to be best for you to succeed in? Will you thrive better in a big place or a small place? Rural or urban? The rankings can't take into account what is best for you.
Do you trust the ratings? It is hard to rate a school. Do you look at how successful graduates are? Then you have to look 5-10 years out, and you don't know how successful they would have been going to a different school.
How important is a highly ranked school? I would say not very important. People can succeed without going to a highly rated school, and can fail having gone to the #1 school.
It's more important that you find a good price on a school that is a reasonably good fit for you, where you will apply yourself and learn, rather than going to a well-ranked school.
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